Six senior immigration officials in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane were arrested on Thursday in Massinga district, accused of involvement in the falsification of passports.The six were named in a Radio Mozambique report on Friday as Bento Amaral, Fenias Rolde, Juca Bata, Teresa Alfredo, Elias Fenesa and Maria de Fátima Travo.These arrests bring to nine the number of people detained by the police in Massinga, in connection with false travel documents. The case came to light a week ago when the police intercepted a man who was in possession of 11 emergency travel certificates, all of which were forged.According to the Massinga district police commander, Acacio Machava, the man was arrested during a routine patrol. Further investigations led to the seizure of other forged documents related with passport applications.Many of the adult men in Massinga district work on the South African mines, and hence there is a great demand for passports in the district.The radio also reported that in the northern province of Niassa, 12 staff at the Public Administration Training Centre in the provincial capital, Lichinga, are facing disciplinary proceedings for corruption,The Centre exists to provide training for people who already work in the Mozambican state. The 12 are accused of accepting bribes to enroll no less than 60 students who were not state employees. The names of those accused have not been made public yet, but the director of the institute, Fernando Jone, said that some of them hold senior positions. The 60 students admitted illegally were initially suspended from the Institute, but were allowed back in once they revealed the names of those staff members they had bribed.Jone said there were also students who did not have the minimum requirement for attending the Institute – namely that they had completed 10th grade of secondary school. He has thus ordered that within a fortnight all the students must present their secondary school certificates.
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